Weekly Round-Up: May 29 – June 4
Sunday, May 29 | The Hill Times – Full Cabinet hardly meets, P&P is Harper’s real Cabinet “He may not have received a coveted new ministry but Immigration Minister Jason…
You keep saying this word. I don’t think this word means what you think it means.
I’d like to kiss the Senate page who launched a protest calling for someone – everyone – to stop Prime Minister Harper. First of all, she’s got chutzpah for doing…
Throne Speech: “STOP HARPER”
Brigette DePape delivered the best line of the throne speech. She showed extraordinary courage to point out the problems of Canada. Harper is the problem if he is only motivated…
Harper needs help to name his new cat
Harper is my Prime Minister, so I want to help him. My suggestion is that he should name the cat Melancholy. Well, poor cat will have to put up with…
Manitoba-mooseless Traffic
All the stuff people were reading at Bond Papers rather than getting excited about a hockey team. Or maybe it was in addition to. In any event, here’s the list…
Titus Andronicus New Single
2nd one off The Moniter:Not the obvious choice, but anthemic enough in the end. PS. I think I've finally figured out band-leader Patrick Stickles' thing with the beard. He's not…
Will You Break A Butterfly On A Wheel
There is a lot of clucking going on about Brigette DePape's protest in the Senate. First, let me say, I admire the hell out of that kid. What she did…
Saturday Photo: What a Difference a Few Months Makes..
This is what it looked like from the terrace yesterday, with Mount Royal covered in green. Below you'll find pix taken from similar points in December and in March.
Saturday reads
Russell Wangersky in the Western Star, on Premier Dunderdale's announcing the findings of an independent study that hasn't even started yet."It’s one thing to be confident — it’s another, slightly…
pupdate and other updates
On Victoria Day, we met our friends James, Lori, Cobalt and Denim at Cherry Beach, which has an excellent leash-free dog park area right on Lake Ontario. Getting together at…
Grounds
Me on Twitter, May 28, 2011 (limited to 140 characters):It appears that smarter people than me seem to agree:Here's University of Ottawa Professor Errol Mendes, cited in a Toronto Star…
A good weekend to read your blog list
With PROBLOGS still in its debut state, this weekend I am actually reading the bloggers that I have pasted in my blog list. Good thing I choose some goods ones.…
"Restraining the welfare state"
This piece last Sunday in the Star, "Restraining the welfare state," by Stanford Professor Michael Boskin, a former Bush the first adviser, has evoked a fair response in letters to…
The "Page" Was Out Of Line!
In our democracy we are allowed to have opinions, and I encourage all those who have opinions to express them. I do on the other hand am against a page…
The Canonization of Laurier
You can rely on Brian Lilley for stupid columns, and the Sun published a corker yesterday. I won’t link to it but the title is Canada doesn’t need fixing and…
The Canonization of Laurier
You can rely on Brian Lilley for stupid columns, and the Sun published a corker yesterday. I won't link to it but the title is Canada doesn't need fixing and…
The Canonization of Laurier
You can rely on Brian Lilley for stupid columns, and the Sun published a corker yesterday. I won’t link to it but the title is Canada doesn’t need fixing and…
Woe Canada! More Canadian Shame as South Korean Family In Moncton Forced to Leave Canada Because of Son’s Autism and Epilepsy
VIKTOR PIVOVAROV/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT Canada's shameful and dishonorable conduct towards families and children with autism and other disabilities continues with the forced expulsion of a South Korean family because one…
A lesson in change
"USC's 21st Century Virtual Classroom": In the spring of 2008, John Katzman, the founder of the Princeton Review, approached the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at at the…